A FIRE ON THE MOON

A Fire on the Moon tells the scarcely credible story of the Apollo 11 mission. It is suffused with Mailer's obsession both with the astronauts themselves and with his own anxieties and terrors about the extremity of what they were trying to achieve. Mailer is both admiring and appalled and the result is a book which is both a gripping narrative and a brilliant depiction of the now-forgotten te chnical issues and uncertainties around the mission. A Fire on the Moon is also a matchless portrait of an America caught in a moras s of intr...[Read more]